INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA announced its field for
the 2007 Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship and for the
fifth consecutive season Salisbury University has been selected as
one of four regional host sites.
The No. 2 Sea Gulls (18-1), winners of the Capital Athletic
Conference for the fifth straight year, will await the first round
winner between No. 20 Washington & Lee and Wooster. SU will
play on Saturday, May 12, at 11:30 a.m.
In the bottom half of Salisbury's region, No. 18 Nazareth (13-2)
will play the first round winner between Colorado College and
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. The Nazareth game will be played on
Saturday, May 12, at 2:30 p.m.
No. 1 Franklin & Marshall, No. 3 Middlebury and No. 4
Gettysburg are the other regional host sites for the tournament.
University of Mary Washington, runners-up in the CAC, earned an
at-large bid into the tournament and will face Eastern in the first
round of the Franklin & Marshall regional.
The two-time defending national champions The College of New
Jersey, ranked No. 5 in the country, will face the winner of No. 9
SUNY Cortland and Western New England in the Middlebury regional.
The winner of the Franklin & Marshall regional will face the
Gettysburg regional winner and the Salisbury regional winner will
square off against the Middlebury regional winner in the Final Four
being held at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y.
(May 19-20).
Last season Salisbury was eliminated in the regional final by
TCNJ, 6-5. SU has made NCAA appearances in eight of the past nine
seasons. • 2007 NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Tournament
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